#slipper

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bath #communal #group #hairy #i

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#bedside #before #best #during #elusive

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#devil #fail #faith #i #lack

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers. ↗

— Simon Sinek

#claims #hard #numbers #slippery #those

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home. ↗

— Allan Carr

#bottoms #excited #go #go home #heroes

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. ↗

— David Baltimore

#argument #been #calling #cloning #congress

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy. ↗

— Stu Jackson

#begin #calls #could #judgment #make

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. ↗

— Leon Kass

#hands #human #human hands #human life #knows

The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue of the history of the planet: as the way we try to understand change through time. The present is different from the past. Evolution happened, there is no debate within science as to whether it happened, and so on... I have used this approach at the college level.' Of course, no college student—indeed, no grade-school dropout— doubts that 'the present is different from the past.' Once Scott gets them nodding in agreement, she gradually introduces them to 'The Big Idea' that all species—including monkeys and humans—are related through descent from a common ancestor... This tactic is called 'equivocation'—changing the meaning of a term in the middle of an argument. ↗

— Jonathan Wells

#ambiguous-terminology #ambiguous-words #darwinism #equivocation #evolution

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#attention #congress #constitution #erosion #getting